Capturing the horror of conflict

Updated 0606 GMT (1406 HKT) June 15, 2012

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Photos:Capturing the horror of conflict

Capturing the horror of conflict – Photography is one of the most important journalistic tools to tell a story. The following photos illustrate some of the tragedies that have profoundly changed the world. Here, children are shown in distress during fighting in the restive city of Homs in Syria, in February.

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This image shows terrified women and children from the Warsaw ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland surrendering to German soldiers after a failed uprising in1943.

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A victim of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, shows the burns on his arms. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki effectively ended the Second World War.

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A lone man stands in protest in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the massacre of pro-democracy protesers in Tiananmen Square. The "tank man" became famous around the world.

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A woman crying next to a dead body in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, after Khmer Rouge forces entered the Cambodian capital and established the government of Democratic Kampuchea -- a dark period in the country's history.

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A Rwandan refugee follows hundreds of other displaced people near the city of Gikongoro on July 8, 1994. Hundreds of thousands died during a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing there.

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Forensic experts excavate bodies, many of them blindfolded with hands tied, outside the Bosnian village of Pilica. They were thought to be the bodies of Muslim men fleeing Serb forces during the Balkan conflict.

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A hijacked airliner crashes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City -- an event which brought global terrorism to a level never before seen.

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Samar Hassan screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers in a shooting on January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces ushered in a bloody new era for the country.